The closest thing to getting back in the womb is crawling up with a good book in front of a small cabin fireplace, contrasted by a subzero blizzard outside...
That's because we're in transition, dear chap. You see, it's very simple: all the REAL, useful jobs are increasingly being replaced by a smaller number of efficient automation techniques (wage-slaves/robots,etc.). Lawyering & Management is the new "make work" profession for all those newly useless human resources.:)
I read an article the other day about Ethan Hawke's next movie, "Billy Dead", trying a new way to get financing: by selling 900,000 IPO shares @ $8.75.
Sounds like a good idea to me. I'd love to pay for what amounts to advance movie ticket(s) to get a movie made that I want want to go see (or download), and sell short the shit I don't. Making a little change off of good taste doesn't hurt either.
several 'specialty' indy film shops are still allowed to send out 'numbered, encoded videocassettes' to Oscar voters.
So, would those be the Hollywood "indys" that co-opted the TRUE indy filmakers after it caught on in the past few years? Kind of like the "indy" RIAA labels.
Cheap-labor conservatism can't last, but I agree that things will only get worse before they get better. Vastly increased modern productivity means that soon not everyone CAN have a useful job, even as a wageslave -- only a select few will own the means of automated production, and the rest will be serfs again.
(until revolution and/or molecular manufacturing comes along to set everyone free from top-down tyranny.)
That's sooooo "unprofessional". *MY* megacorp would NEVER ever associate ourselves with anything that hasn't had every last drop of fun and humanity removed from it with the Politically-Correct-Hammer(R)... unless we're faking our humanity for advertising purposes only, of course.
Do what I do and simply moleculary disassemble all your old junk and store the gzip'd blueprint for later reassembly.
Obviously ripping apart atomic bonds takes a little time and (free solar) energy, so as rule I only backup stuff that I haven't touched in over a month, and if I haven't need to reassemble it in over a year I'll usually delete it to free up a few Terabytes for some more VRPr0n and celeb bodyscans.
The Wright Brothers demonstrated that man could fly. A century later, we're looking at a future in which planes fly without humans.
Where is written that one must mention the Wright Brothers as a historical leadin to any story about advancing aircraft technology? That's damn annoying.
Well, it was written in 1968, so he was probably influenced by the trendy notion of the day that the Earth would soon be an overpopulated cesspool that would run out of oil and be forced to transition to radiation-leaking, "too-cheap-to-meter" nuclear energy.:)
Linearly extrapolating into the future never seems to work.
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Q: What did the high school grad say to the Computer Science Major?
A: Can I have a copy of "McD.Fries.[circa_2014].Molecular.Blueprint.zip" for my desktop manufacturing box? Thanks!
I can't bring myself to use that illegal p2p stuff that the pedophile hackers use when I could be using a slow FTP or WWW link instead. Also, I don't like to change my old ways.
We should all do our part to support centralized distribution instead of distributed terrorist cell distribution.
Most Sports == War games.
Team A == Warrior Tribe A.
Team B == Warrior Tribe B.
Fans of Team A == Lesser Members of Tribe A.
Fans of Team B == Lesser Members of Tribe B.
Us. vs Them. Some like to live vicariously through "Us" or through "Them".
I would imagine the money would be put in escrow so that those who funded the project could verify that the end result wasn't a hackjob.
If 5,000 people put $10 toward fixing X, but the result is that X is only partially fixed according to the subjective judgement of those 5,000 people, then each contributor should be able to take back a certain percentage of their money from the pot before payday. Such a chargeback should stay on your record though, so if you're just a bait'n'switch cheapass your money won't be worth shit.
I think you've come up with another way to make money with free software.
This is just a variation of the Street Performer Protocol: People pool their money to fund the scarce CREATION of a unique work they want put into the public domain (rather than paying for artificially scarce COPIES of data).
If everyone had wireless and shared it the world would be much nicer.
Especially since at that point there'd be the critical mass necessary for bottom-up mesh networking to replace the top-down telecoms (except for crossing oceans).
For the sake of the children, we should let the big telcos and the WISPs regulate and monetize this budding "community" wireless infrastructure. Also, Cisco should be the only government sanctioned monopoly allowed to manufacture SECURE DRM AccessPoints, so that subversives can be logged and censored at the router.
Vote YES for the Wireless Terrorist Prevention Act!
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Try walking around in most stores (esp. BestBuy) with a backpack on.
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That's because we're in transition, dear chap. You see, it's very simple: all the REAL, useful jobs are increasingly being replaced by a smaller number of efficient automation techniques (wage-slaves/robots,etc.). Lawyering & Management is the new "make work" profession for all those newly useless human resources. :)
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Sounds like a good idea to me. I'd love to pay for what amounts to advance movie ticket(s) to get a movie made that I want want to go see (or download), and sell short the shit I don't. Making a little change off of good taste doesn't hurt either.
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So, would those be the Hollywood "indys" that co-opted the TRUE indy filmakers after it caught on in the past few years? Kind of like the "indy" RIAA labels.
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Cue The Doom Song :)
Cheap-labor conservatism can't last, but I agree that things will only get worse before they get better. Vastly increased modern productivity means that soon not everyone CAN have a useful job, even as a wageslave -- only a select few will own the means of automated production, and the rest will be serfs again.
(until revolution and/or molecular manufacturing comes along to set everyone free from top-down tyranny.)
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That's sooooo "unprofessional". *MY* megacorp would NEVER ever associate ourselves with anything that hasn't had every last drop of fun and humanity removed from it with the Politically-Correct-Hammer(R) ... unless we're faking our humanity for advertising purposes only, of course.
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Unless that person is also invested in MSFT directly or indirectly.
MSFT being in the DOW30 means a lot of people have a selfish incentive to perpetuate THEIR monopoly.
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Obviously ripping apart atomic bonds takes a little time and (free solar) energy, so as rule I only backup stuff that I haven't touched in over a month, and if I haven't need to reassemble it in over a year I'll usually delete it to free up a few Terabytes for some more VRPr0n and celeb bodyscans.
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Rape me stupid if you want - I don't care - as long as I get my McD and Reality TV!
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That's why you combine GPS with inertial guidance.
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I noticed another popular (Reuters) article on Yahoo - Technology Removes Need for Human Pilots - released on the same day, which began similarly:
Where is written that one must mention the Wright Brothers as a historical leadin to any story about advancing aircraft technology? That's damn annoying.
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Linearly extrapolating into the future never seems to work.
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Q: What did the high school grad say to the Computer Science Major?
A: Can I have a copy of "McD.Fries.[circa_2014].Molecular.Blueprint.zip" for my desktop manufacturing box? Thanks!
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I can't bring myself to use that illegal p2p stuff that the pedophile hackers use when I could be using a slow FTP or WWW link instead. Also, I don't like to change my old ways.
We should all do our part to support centralized distribution instead of distributed terrorist cell distribution.
Thanks!
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Team A == Warrior Tribe A.
Team B == Warrior Tribe B.
Fans of Team A == Lesser Members of Tribe A.
Fans of Team B == Lesser Members of Tribe B.
Us. vs Them. Some like to live vicariously through "Us" or through "Them".
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If 5,000 people put $10 toward fixing X, but the result is that X is only partially fixed according to the subjective judgement of those 5,000 people, then each contributor should be able to take back a certain percentage of their money from the pot before payday. Such a chargeback should stay on your record though, so if you're just a bait'n'switch cheapass your money won't be worth shit.
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This is just a variation of the Street Performer Protocol: People pool their money to fund the scarce CREATION of a unique work they want put into the public domain (rather than paying for artificially scarce COPIES of data).
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Especially since at that point there'd be the critical mass necessary for bottom-up mesh networking to replace the top-down telecoms (except for crossing oceans).
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Vote YES for the Wireless Terrorist Prevention Act!
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